More Map Skills Continued

4. What lines of longitude is Newfoundland between?

5. What lines of latitude is New Brunswick between?

6. What line of latitude is the border between British Columbia and the Yukon Territories on?

7. What line of latitude runs through Ellesmere Island?

8. Is the 70 degrees north line of latitude north or south of the Arctic Circle?

9. On a map of the Atlantic Provinces (page 52 in the Nystrom Canadian Desk Atlas), what line of longitude is Gander, Newfoundland, closest to?

10. What line of latitude runs through the top of Labrador?

11. Using lines of latitude and longitude, describe where the following places are: Sable Island; Moncton, New Brunswick; Sydney, Nova Scotia; the Cape Breton Highlands National Park.

Using Vocabulary

geography      island      coastline      area

Choose words from the word bank above to complete the sentences below.

1. Greenland is an __________ because there is water all around it.

2. The study of __________ tells us about different places in the world.

3. I know where there is a nice picnic __________ in this park.

4. This __________ has lots of hiding places that pirates could have used.